...Max pain is related to options "pinning" where the stock settles near (within pennies of) a strike price on expiration day.[he knows expiration is actually the next day, ask him about the friend who cleared BSC and got a call from Ace Greenberg: "Where's my fucking ten million dollars?". Close those positions if you don't want them exercised. -ed]

Eyeballing the chart, $120 looks as if it might offer some resistance. The stock is currently up $4.03 at $119.40, close enough for me....

The stock closed on options expiration day at $121.18.

The company has a webcast coming up, December 16. The last time they did this we bailed on a (profitable) short, the stock popped eight bucks and we got a second shot at the short side. You can read about it in "First Solar: Chicken Trader Pulling the Plug (FSLR)"